No Line in Time

No Line In Time probes the mechanisms of unsettlement in Western Canada, the confrontations and collaborations among Muslims, Christians, and Jews that constitute medieval al Andalus, and some remnants, imagined and recovered, in contemporary Andalusia. Sonja Greckol winds flashes of medieval poetry, slight sketches of philosopher-soldiers, and faint tableaus, in disjunctive blurts and lyric flights threading an iterating unstable self, preoccupied with the blanks and fissures in her. Transiting between the “empty” geography of a prairie childhood and privileged adult travel, questioning what lay under whose feet takes possession and leads to Medieval Spain, to Aragon launching Columbus. She moves from historilessness to the timeliness of ‘now:’ great granddaughter of Eastern Europe learning her place.